Posts from Green Living

Plants are well known as great way to add some color, texture and life to a space, and when they also happen to be beautifully oversized hanging plants, they also bring the drama. We've rounded up some examples from our archives and around the web.

For years IKEA's EXPEDIT has been a ubiquitous storage solution for homes everywhere. But recently the Swedish furnishing giant's VITTSJÖ has been showing up more and more on my design radar. It doesn't scream IKEA, and you'd never guess the system starts as low as $40. The black metal and glass shelving system has a nice industrial quality on its own, but it seems to really shine when it's given a bright coat of paint. Here are five really great examples of VITTSJÖ's potential.

In America, we like our cars. And cars mean parking spaces — lots and lots of them. When some enterprising folks at the Savannah College of Art and Design learned that there are five parking spaces for every car in the US, they hatched a plan. Why not, they thought, build microhousing inside a garage?

It's so easy to push a button and order flowers online (and a wonderful option for those far apart) but imagine delivering a handmade bouquet filled with vibrant, fragrant, seasonal flowers. Too expensive? Not more expensive than the internet. Too complicated? Nope. We can do it!

Wooden cable reel, drum, or spool tables come dangerously close to wagon wheel coffee tables, and that can be a problem. Not a real problem mind you, but a decidedly first-world design blog kind of problem. Because some people find them charming and some people find them less charming. I'm here to try to push you into the "yes" column by sharing some examples where these humble materials become something interesting.

Whenever I enter my go-to yoga studio, I am at once calm in body and quiet in mind. So I began to take notice: What elements are there in the studio that I can implement at home? The studio is in a pretty ordinary building, so these tips are take-homes for anyone, anywhere:

Grout is no fun. The word even sounds unhappy. And the bright white stuff shows Every. Little. Blemish. It's porous, hard to get to, easily stains—the list goes on. But fret not, here we have it: some helpful tips to make your least favorite chore a little more bearable.

Coconut oil is increasingly a go-to ingredient for cooking and body care, but this versatile substance can work wonders in a number of different contexts. Read on to discover 14 ways that you can use coconut oil in every part of your home.

If you love tiny houses, and you dream of living close to nature, we've found the perfect place for you. This little shack, designed by Broadhurst Architects for a family farm in the mountains of West Virginia, is equal parts tiny house and camping shelter — in the best possible way.

With more cities designating car-free zones, what would New York look like with its own bustling Times Square, sans-vehicles? For the Vision42Design competition, teams were asked to develop plans of a future 42nd street as a "pedestrian-friendly, auto-free, sustainable boulevard."